What's in Monty's Pouch? A Busselton Jetty Story
Every morning, someone walks to the very end of the Busselton Jetty and asks Monty the same question: what’s in your pouch? And every day, the answer grows: a fish, a shell, one lonely thong, a runaway umbrella, and Gerald the crab, who climbed in for a rest.
Then Sunday comes, a small child walks all the way to the end... and Monty isn’t on his post. What happens next is the best page-turn on the jetty.
What's in Monty's Pouch? A Busselton Jetty Story
One pelican. One enormous pouch. Six days of very interesting collecting.
Every morning, someone walks to the very end of the Busselton Jetty and asks Monty the same question: what’s in your pouch? And every day, the answer grows: a fish, a shell, one lonely thong, a runaway umbrella, and Gerald the crab, who climbed in for a rest. Then Sunday comes, a small child walks all the way to the end... and Monty isn’t on his post. What happens next is the best page-turn on the jetty.
A chantable refrain, a hide-and-seek Gerald on every page, and a pelican who knows exactly what he is doing. Written by a local author, illustrated by a born-and-bred local artist, about a jetty that’s very, very real. Walk the jetty, meet the book, take Monty home, and yes, he comes as a plush too.
Recommended age: 3–7 years
Series: Monty the Pelican & Friends
Themes: Friendship, pride, forgiveness, humour, rhyme
Audio edition: not yet
Dorothy Dowling is an Australian children’s author, midwife and nurse from the South West of Western Australia. Her stories began long before her books did. When her son Alex was three, they kept chooks, and Dorothy would invent tales for him out loud: silly ones, told again and again. He was her most exacting critic, and revisions were made on demand. Nearly twenty years on, and three years after Alex’s tragic death at seventeen, she published his favourite, Chookity Chook, to preserve and continue the goodness he gave so freely. Every book since carries his laughter, and every one is read-aloud tested: written to be just as good on the two-hundredth reading as the first. A career midwife who has built early-childhood health services across outback Australia, Dorothy writes for the wonder she has spent her life around. Her stories roam from a mischievous farmyard, the incredible Outback, to the sea garden beneath the famous Busselton Jetty, where Monty the pelican and his quietly hidden friend Gerald await sharp-eyed readers.
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Yougesh Mahajan
Inside the Book
A peek into the colorful world of Chookity Chook and his Friends
Meet the Characters
The colorful cast of Chookity Chook and his Friends and one Sneaky Fox.
Chookity Chook
Dame Edna Duck
Lamby Loo
Foxy Loxy
